The Happening and Philosophy
M. Night Shyamalan's new movie, "The Happening" seems to be what the people need now. Consumed by dull horror movies, our hope stands with Mr. Shyamalan.
This is more then just a movie, this is a test and that's what makes it so powerful. Mark Wahlberg is one of the favorite actors in Hollywood these days while Night is a great director who has Directorial freedom.
In Philosophical thunder
The Happening is kind of biblical, but it seems like it has more then that in it.
Night, choose and put, Mark as a school teacher for one reason, studying!
Night, feels he is our teacher, as a believer he speaks as a teacher. But then, something big happens, the teacher becomes the student. This is the first mix-up of the story. It is hard to any human being to be the one, he is exactly the opposite of. Mark being a strong and powerful person on and off screen, being in this situation is almost impossible!
My God, Night!
Is it possible that Night, tells us something about God? If God is the teacher, can God become the student or will he become the student? Interesting to watch how it develops in the movie itself.
Mr. Night loves families, here Mark also has a family. There is something very strong in Night's families, although they are broken. In each of his movies, the families were broken but in the end become stronger.
There is no debut that Night believes in family and God and tries to bring them together each time. He is a revel who kicks all the broken families around the planet.
What is the question?
No one, knows what happens, no one have answers. There are only questions, throughout the movie. Mark asks what, why and more and there are no answers.
Again, the teacher, has the questions, the teacher becomes the student! But this time, there are no answers in the horizon. It is pretty scary not to have answers, but it's challenging to seek for them.
Most people need to have straight answers. Yes or No, Black or White, nothing in the middle. But here there are no!
Imagine a situation where I ask someone for his name and he says he doesn't know, how scary is that? Our imagination starts thinking, is this man a loony? we immediately take 2-3 steps back.
Why do you think people are so scared of death? Simply because they don't have a straight answer what will happen to them. Heaven, hell or whatever, they and we still don't have an answer to that mystical question.
The Happening
Is the bible True or Not, this is one of the biggest questions that people like to ask. There is no true answer beside belief. Again we go back to Night's head, he loves people who believe or lost their belief. In the end the come to belief.
In Signs, Mel lost his belief in God to gain it back. In Unbreakable Willis learned to believe in the unbelievable. In the Village, a certain belief put people in a Village. The same themes happened in 6th sense and Lady In the Water as Willis learned to believe in the boy, help the boy and belief gave us the Lady inside the water.
So is the Happening going to happened? Well, I guess if you believe in it, it will, if not, it won't…
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